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GortsUp Academy's "QA Engineer" course in Yerevan is for beginners. Duration: 6 months. Classes are held in Yerevan at 4 Tigran Mets and on an online platform (hybrid format). Price: from 54,200 ֏ per month with a 12-month installment plan. From the 3rd month of study, a job placement support program is available, and 79% of students find a job while still studying. The academy has been on the market since 2022, with 2500+ graduates.
Programming with neural networks
We learn AI tools and how to apply them in data analysis
Job placement support program
From the 3rd month of study
Small groups with active involvement of everyone
Up to 15-17 students per group
Hands-on learning comes first
More than 50% of the course is practical work
Partner
Partner
Partner
Partner
No. 1 in Armenia with a job placement program
Aravoty Shantum / GortsUp Academy
Shant TV
Aravoty Shantum / GortsUp Academy
Shant TV
Recruit Days 2024
Armenia Today
Recruit Days 2024
Hayk media
- 2500+Graduates
- Since 2022On the market
- 9,2Client trust index
- 79%of graduates get jobs
Our students about us
The lesson was very interesting, everything was accessible, and the explanations were interesting and clear.
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The lesson was ideal, very good, we discussed everything as a group and all of us were involved.
I was involved, we asked the lecturer questions, it was an interactive lesson
We talked about professional topics, the lesson was interesting. The lecturer explained in an accessible way
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The information about the profession was interesting.
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When it is time to change your profession
If you ask yourself these questions, it is time to try something new
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You earn as much as you want, not as much as happens to come. -
You see your acquaintances changing jobs and their standard of living, while nothing changes for you. -
A year from now it will be harder for you to reach senior positions than it is today. -
You keep putting off a change of profession because you are afraid of making a mistake again. -
Will your skills become outdated faster than you update them? -
Do you have a clear goal for the next 1-3 years and a real plan to achieve it?
Who it is for:
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For office workersWant to move into a more in-demand, higher-paid IT profession. -
For people tired of a fixed scheduleLooking for freer, remote and flexible work opportunities. -
For all beginnersSuitable for anyone who wants to enter IT from scratch. -
Moms on maternity leaveRemote work and a flexible schedule: an ideal return to the job market -
For service industry professionalsCommunication skills and stress resistance will help you in IT -
For everyone who is not a "tech person"More than 70% of our students came from non-technical fields
Your path to a dream career
3 months after the start of study
You understand the profession from the inside.
You have your first practical skills, reinforced during practice.
You know what real problems are solved in this position.
You work confidently with the main tools and processes.
You are building confidence that you can work in this role.
You are starting to build your professional network.
You have your first practical skills, reinforced during practice.
You know what real problems are solved in this position.
You work confidently with the main tools and processes.
You are building confidence that you can work in this role.
You are starting to build your professional network.
6 months after the start of study
You confidently solve typical tasks at a junior specialist level.
You have several complete projects (cases) in your new profession.
You understand how to create value for the business in your role.
You have connections in companies and an established professional network.
You enter the job market as a ready specialist, not as a beginner.
You understand what problems you can be paid for.
You can present your value to a company in the language of business.
You have a growth plan for your first year in the new role.
You have several complete projects (cases) in your new profession.
You understand how to create value for the business in your role.
You have connections in companies and an established professional network.
You enter the job market as a ready specialist, not as a beginner.
You understand what problems you can be paid for.
You can present your value to a company in the language of business.
You have a growth plan for your first year in the new role.
One year after study
You fulfill dreams that you previously lacked the money or confidence for.
You live at a pace and standard of living that used to be your goal.
You earn more than before changing your profession.
You feel that you are valued.
You are not afraid to change companies if the conditions no longer meet your expectations.
You take part in solving the team's problems, not just carrying out tasks.
You understand how to grow in your role or move to the next level.
You feel like a full-fledged specialist in the job market.
You have real achievements that you can present to your next employer.
You live at a pace and standard of living that used to be your goal.
You earn more than before changing your profession.
You feel that you are valued.
You are not afraid to change companies if the conditions no longer meet your expectations.
You take part in solving the team's problems, not just carrying out tasks.
You understand how to grow in your role or move to the next level.
You feel like a full-fledged specialist in the job market.
You have real achievements that you can present to your next employer.
3 years after study
You achieve big goals not by luck, but through a systematic approach.
You work at the level of a confident middle or senior specialist.
You earn several times more than at the starting stage.
You choose projects and companies, rather than just looking for a job.
You understand how to create a product and earn income from your experience.
You sell not hours of work, but your value and results.
People turn to you for professional expertise, not just execution.
You understand how to grow your income and influence.
You become a noticeable specialist in your field.
You have a stable career path for the coming years.
You work at the level of a confident middle or senior specialist.
You earn several times more than at the starting stage.
You choose projects and companies, rather than just looking for a job.
You understand how to create a product and earn income from your experience.
You sell not hours of work, but your value and results.
People turn to you for professional expertise, not just execution.
You understand how to grow your income and influence.
You become a noticeable specialist in your field.
You have a stable career path for the coming years.
How to build a dream career
You get to choose among offers, rather than accept the first one that comes along.
Career center tools
- Résumé preparationTaking into account current job market requirements and HR specialists' expectations
- Career webinarsTo discuss the main interview questions and cases.
- 360° SupportConstant contact with a career center specialist on any job placement question
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Profile auditLinkedIn, HH.ru, Staff.am. We will present your experience in the best possible way. - Q&AWe have collected typical HR questions and prepared answers, ensuring you are fully prepared.
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Course: Interview from 0 to a job offerA special module that prepares you for the interview. -
Job chatGet job openings directly in Telegram, being the first to see them from 3 different sources. -
Guides and checklistsFor preparing for interviews on your own, so you feel confident and without fear. -
Communication with employersGet job openings directly in Telegram from the 3 very first sources. -
Motivation and supportWe are always by your side. We help analyze interviews and strengthen weak points.
What will the career center give you?
You choose, you are not the one being chosen
Why moving into IT is the best decision right now
- In-demand IT professionQA is among the top 5 most in-demand IT professions in the world
- Easy entry into ITQA is considered one of the most accessible ways to enter IT.
- Programming knowledge is not requiredYou do not need deep programming knowledge to start in QA.
- Income in foreign currencyThe chance to work in the international market.
- Great potential for salary growthIn IT, your salary will grow at least 2–3 times within 2–3 years
- Work on a flexible scheduleWork from anywhere in the world
Your career growth in QA
A clear plan: from your first bug reports to automation and management.
- 0–1 yearJunior QA• Studying documentation
• Writing test cases
• Finding bugs
• API and Frontend testingResult: confident Junior/Middle with a salary of 350,000–500,000 ֏ - 2–3 yearsQA Automation• Testing languages (Python/Java)
• Writing automated tests
• Setting up CI/CD (DevOps)Result: Middle+ Automation with a salary starting from 800,000 AMD - 3+ yearsLead QA / SDET• Managing teams and processes
• Building test architecture
• Product quality strategyResult: Architect / Team Lead with an income of $3000+
How much does a QA Engineer earn?
Average salary in Armenia
$600
Beginner QA Engineer
$1000+
Middle QA Engineer
$1500+
Senior QA Engineer / Lead
$3000+
Job placement support
Requirements for students
- You attend 85%+ of modules
- You pass all tests
- You pass the exam (with a positive result)
- You complete the resume template
We guarantee
- We review your resume and feedback at least once
- We review your staff.am, LinkedIn, hh.ru profiles
- Access to a private Telegram group with job postings
Speakers and course authors
Ananya Sarungulyan
QA Automation Engineer
QA Engineer with 5+ years of experience, specializing in Playwright, TypeScript/JavaScript, API Testing and SQL, in banking systems, UI/API automation, databases and business process testing.
Current workplace: Ameriabank.
Current workplace: Ameriabank.
Mikayel Arustamyan
QA Engineer
QA Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience, specializing in quality assurance of Web, Mobile and SaaS systems, API Testing, SQL and testing of complex business processes.
Experienced in planning, organizing and optimizing QA processes, as well as coordinating team work.
Experienced in planning, organizing and optimizing QA processes, as well as coordinating team work.
The best companies trust us:
where our graduates work too
Course program
- Who works in an IT team and what they are responsible for
- The role of the tester (QA) in the team
- Stages of the software life cycle: planning, design, development, testing, release, maintenance
- Two approaches: sequential (Waterfall) and short cycles (Agile)
- Practice: using a simple project, explain who does what and what happens at each stage
- The idea behind the Agile approach
- Scrum: work in short iterations (Sprint), user requirements (User Story) and tasks
- Scrum meetings and roles
- Kanban: a task board and how it differs from Scrum
- Practice: for an online store, build a to-do list, a sprint and a Kanban board
- QA, QC and testing: three different concepts
- The testing process: from requirements analysis to completion
- Functional and non-functional checks (speed, security)
- Different checks: quick check (Smoke), narrow check (Sanity), re-check (Retesting), regression check (Regression)
- Practice: for different situations, decide which type of testing is needed
- Test design methods: equivalence partitioning, boundary values, decision table
- Bug life cycle: new, assigned, fixed, retest, closed
- Structure of a bug report
- Severity (Severity) and priority (Priority): the difference
- Practice: find problems in a login or sign-up feature and write a bug report
- Test case (Test Case): precondition, steps, expected result
- The difference between a good and a bad test case
- Checklist and test data
- Jira: a work management system, creating and managing bugs
- Practice: write test cases for an online store and present them in Jira
- Working on a practice website
- The full flow: requirement, test case, execution, bug report, re-check
- Finding and reproducing bugs and collecting evidence
- Practice: independently test a small feature and log the bugs in Jira
- Chrome DevTools: page elements, error messages, network requests, stored data
- Basics of HTML and page structure (DOM)
- CSS selectors: how to find a page element
- Practice: find elements with DevTools and write their selectors
- XPath: a second way to find an element and how it differs from CSS
- API basics: request, response, status codes, JSON
- Postman: a tool for checking APIs
- Practice: test a complete feature, from requirements analysis to a summary report, using Jira, DevTools and Postman
- What an automated test does and how its result is determined
- Which scenarios are worth automating
- The three parts of a test: setup, actions, checks
- Demonstrating passing and failing tests on a training app
- Describing the exact sequence of a manual scenario's actions
- Pseudocode: a way to write a program in plain language
- Separating setup, actions and checks
- Practice: write pseudocode for positive and negative scenarios
- Running code and viewing the result
- Variable: a "box" that holds a value
- Data types: text, number, "yes/no" value
- Examples of test data
- Comparisons and logical operators ("and", "or", "not")
- The "if... then... else" structure
- The order in which code runs
- Practice: checking age, password and required fields
- Function: a ready-made piece of code that can be reused
- Creating and calling a function
- Parameters and return value
- Practice: moving repeated calculations into functions
- Object: a set of properties of one thing (for example, a user)
- Array: a numbered series of values
- Loop: processing items one after another
- Practice: processing several data sets
- Building a small program using what you have learned
- Reading error messages
- Fixing ready-made faulty code
- Review assignment
- Playwright: a tool that runs tests in the browser automatically
- Installing Node.js and creating a project
- Test structure and order of actions
- Practice: turn the first scenario from pseudocode into code and run it
- How to tell a test which element to work with (locator)
- Search by role, label, text: choosing a stable locator
- XPath basics
- Main actions: click, fill, check, select from a list
- Practice: fill in a form and perform the scenario's actions
- Assertions: text, visibility, value, page address
- Auto-waiting: the test itself waits until the element appears
- Why fixed pauses are unreliable
- Positive and negative tests
- Grouping tests and shared setup
- Test data
- Independence: each test works independently of the others
- Running a single test and the whole suite
- Moving repeated actions into helper functions
- Classes (class) for understanding Page Object
- Page Object: an approach that keeps a page's elements and actions in one place
- Practice: refactoring written tests and adding a new test
- Sending requests with Playwright (GET and POST)
- Checking the response status code and JSON fields
- Practice: an independent API test
- Preparing data via API for a page test
- Reading an error: is the problem in the app, the test or the data?
- Debug mode, HTML report and recording of a test run
- Causes of flakiness: why a test sometimes passes and sometimes doesn't
- Practice: fixing tests with specific errors
- Git and GitHub: how they differ
- Main commands: status, diff, add, commit
- Connecting a remote repository and push
- Workflow: branch, change, commit, push, change approval request (Pull Request)
- Adding new tests to a prepared project following the project's rules
- Running tests and analyzing failures
- Fixing comments after a code review
- Finishing your own project: README file, publishing and explaining your solutions
Packages
MINI
- 24 modules
- 24 interim tests
- 24 additional learning materials
- Individual feedback during the course
- Constant support from the assistance and service team throughout your studies
- Course completion certificate
- 1 year of access to the professional digital community
- 2 cross-industry video workshops with online practical tasks
- Effective presentation of your portfolio in your CV
- 3 universal career webinars on passing job interviews successfully
54,200 AMD per month
75 416
BASE
- 24 modules
- 24 interim tests
- 24 additional learning materials
- Individual feedback during the course
- Constant support from the assistance and service team throughout your studies
- Course completion certificate
- 1 year of access to the professional digital community
- 2 cross-industry video workshops with online practical tasks
- Effective presentation of your portfolio in your CV
- 3 universal career webinars on passing job interviews successfully
- CV preparation in Armenian
- 1 year of access to a closed Telegram group with job openings
- 1 year of access to the learning platform
- Professional photo for your CV
- Video workshop on creating a staff.am profile
- LinkedIn profile audit and 2 months of feedback
- staff.am profile audit and 2 months of feedback
- Video workshop on building a strong profile on professional platforms
- Video workshop on working effectively with clients on an industry freelance platform
- Video workshop on building a strong Upwork profile
- Video workshop on building a strong professional GitHub profile
- CV preparation in English
62,500 AMD per month
95 833
PRO MAX
- 24 modules
- 24 interim tests
- 24 additional learning materials
- Individual feedback during the course
- Constant support from the assistance and service team throughout your studies
- Course completion certificate
- 1 year of access to the professional digital community
- 2 cross-industry video workshops with online practical tasks
- Effective presentation of your portfolio in your CV
- 3 universal career webinars on passing job interviews successfully
- CV preparation in Armenian
- 1 year of access to a closed Telegram group with job openings
- 1 year of access to the learning platform
- Professional photo for your CV
- Video workshop on creating a staff.am profile
- LinkedIn profile audit and 2 months of feedback
- staff.am profile audit and 2 months of feedback
- Video workshop on building a strong profile on professional platforms
- Video workshop on working effectively with clients on an industry freelance platform
- Video workshop on building a strong Upwork profile
- Video workshop on building a strong professional GitHub profile
- CV preparation in English
- 1 individual interview simulation
- Code Review of your final project
- 2 individual preparation sessions for a technical interview
75,000 AMD per month
112 500
Monthly payment with a 12-month installment plan
Installment payment with no down payment. Partners: Ameria Bank, Idram, VTB. Decision in 1 day with a minimal set of documents.
Installment payment with no down payment. Partners: Ameria Bank, Idram, VTB. Decision in 1 day with a minimal set of documents.
Frequently asked questions
The QA Engineer course costs, with a 12-month installment plan: MINI package 54,200 ֏ per month, BASE package 62,500 ֏ per month, PRO MAX package 75,000 ֏ per month. Monthly installment payment is available.
The course lasts 6 months.
The format is hybrid: classes are held in Yerevan at 4 Tigran Mets Avenue, and on an online learning platform.
Yes, the course is designed for beginners.
Yes, the academy has a job placement support program. Conditions: 85%+ attendance of modules, passing all tests, a positive exam result and filling in the résumé template. The academy reviews your résumé and your LinkedIn, staff.am and hh.ru profiles, and gives you access to a closed Telegram group with job openings.
Yes, the academy holds free career consultations and helps you choose the right path. Leave a request on the website or call +374 93 12-96-06.
GortsUp Academy is located in Yerevan, at 4 Tigran Mets Avenue. Phone: +374 93 12-96-06, email: info@gortsup.am.
Where to start? We will help
- If you don't yet know what your strengths are:
- If you want a change but can't decide which field to start with:
- Or if you simply want to discover what professions exist outside IT where you can earn a decent living:
our specialist will hold a free career consultation and help you choose the right path.
Contacts
GortsUp Academy